The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a warning letter to seafood processing company Saemus on May 18 over what it called “serious” Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) violations.

The determination is based on inspection of the processing facility in Virginia from Oct. 29 through Nov. 5 of last year, the letter said.

Among concerns was that the firm does not have a HACCP plan in place for its frozen vacuum packed, cooked, ready to eat eel.

Also, its ready-to-eat broiled eel kabayaki and hot and spicy eel productslacked the required HACCP plan to assure the fish are cooked sufficiently.

It also found a product — Natural Fresh Water Eel — was misbranded, since the label fails to declare all major food allergens present in the product.